Things have been busy with The Afghan Whigs as they ramp up to the release of Do To the Beast, the band’s first album of all new material in sixteen years. Today, they announced the video for “Algiers” as well as tour dates, track listing and pre-order information for the album and upcoming media appearances. I’ve copy/pasted the press release below for posterity. Update #1: Entertainment Weekly interview with Dulli Update #2: Rolling Stone interview with Dulli/Curley confirming Rick McCollum’s departure and contributors to the new…

It started with the “Debonair” video. As a highly impressionable seventeen year old, I had just begun transferring my naive attempts at teenage rebellion into full-on suburban teenage angst. In the early ’90s, that meant giving up on MTV’s Headbangers’ Ball and instead setting the VCR to record 120 Minutes.